Spain ends June with 51.68Mn mobile lines

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Spain has lost 54,141 mobile lines in the month of June, taking the total number to 51.68 million, up 4.2% since June’08, reports telecoms regulator, CMT. The drop in lines has been driven by  an adjustment of nearly 161,000 lines made by Orange in the prepaid segment. Over the last three months, MVNOs won 50.60% of the total new additions, Vodafone covered 28.70%, Yoigo accounted for 19.41% and Movistar for 7.18%, while Orange lost 5.89% in the period. Mobile penetration reached 112 lines per 100 inhabitants, versus 107.4 in June’08.
384,838 mobile phone numbers were ported in June, up by 19.3% versus the same period last year. Yoigo and the MVNOs saw a positive balance in portability, while Movistar, Vodafone and Orange registered a negative balance. Yoigo won 23,671 users and the MVNOs added 15,023 ported customers.